TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXI, Issue 277, 24 November 1890, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Sm George Guest. Retired from political life. Weather again broken. Heavy rain yesterday. Toole to-morrow night. Silver is quoted ab 3s IOJd. Moonlight excursion to-night. To-morrow ia Sfe. Crispin's day. Sydney mail arrives on Thursday. Alberb Park makes a fine flower show. Good sprinkling of tourists now ab Rotorua. Mr F. Lawry ab Parnell oa Wednesday night. Church Jubilee meeting to? nighb. Cargo-steamer Matatua lefb Waifcara fofr London. Auckland Gum Storemen's Union meets to-night. jDevonporb Wesleyan Church soiree this evening. Chapter of accidents ab Otahuha races on Saturday. fAmateur Athletic Club'a sports very successful. 'Sacred concert in Gladstone Hall, Northcpte, to-night. Sunday-school Industrial Exhibition netted over £80. ; Great number of pretty dresses at Saturday's Domain sports. 'Five-mile bicyle race on Saturday waft splendidly contested. I Sb. Benedict's annual Christmas tree and sale of work next week, j .* Chips " Comedy Company did nob perform on Saturday nighb. J German Squadron leaves Wellington oa 5 10th prox. for the Islands. ,"?Sb. Mark'B Church people hare done welt oufc of their sale of work. i Auckland Tailors' and House-painters* Jnions meet this evening. 1 Samuel Vaile and W. L. Reea address Eden electors to-morrow night. ; Buchanan made a splendid tight for tha five-mile bicycle ac the Domain eporte. An omnibus has started running between Rotorua and Whakarewarewa Hot Springs. 1 Auckland passengers ex R.M.S, lonic* from Home, arrived in Manukau yesterday. ■A wheab cargo ex Anglo-Norman, from Oamaru, has been sold ab London at 35s 6d. J Sir George Grey has devoted the best? part of half a century to New Zealand affairs. R. Scott West lectures on "Scottish Ballade " in Newton Congregational Church tip-night. ; There is a great recovering in British, New York, and Continental general stocka in London. 3| Ibbot, the Swedish faster at Sydney has now completed 29 days, and is confident of finishing his task. fTke death is announced of Profeseor Stephens, Lecturer on Natural Science at> Sydney University. £ Suffolk, now at Rue9ell, has the first cargo of timber from America to Australia yet shipped by steamer, :;•_! The s.s. Prodoano, the initial steamer in j%he New York-Australian direct trade, has jhfib reached Sydney. jTFwo Australian tourists ascended Tarawera Mountain on Friday last, and were much pleased with their trip. # The Rev. H. R. Haweia, incumbenb of Sfc. James's, Marylebenej London, leaves on a visit to the Australian colonies. ■ Some timid Wellingtonians suspect the German warships of taking bearings and. soundings in and aboub Wellington Harbour.

The New Zealand hemp market is unsettled owing to forced sales. Quotations nominal; medium is worth £24 10s per ton ; Manilla market easier. f The London frozen mutton market is quiet, and the price of mutton has declined fd per lb. There ia a rather bebter demand for tallow. Quotations unchanged since lasb telegram.

Ab the request of Mr Parnell, Sir C. Gavan Duffy will contest Kilkenny North, rendered vacant owing fco the death of Mr E. P. Mulhallen Marum, who was returned at last election withuut opposition. The Registrar of Electors at Wellington is instituting proceedings against several persons claiming a right to have their names placed upon the electoral roll, on the charge of making false declarations. ! The amount of Baring Brothers' guarantee in London will be £17,000,000 without) assistance from private and country banks. The Baring Brothers will reform in to a limited company with a capital of over a million, which is chiefly provided by members of the family.

The New York branch of the Irish National Land League have decided thab the accounts be produced showing how the sum of £2,000,000, remitted to Ireland from America since 18P6, has been disposed of. The League also denounces the present mission of Messrs Dillon and O'Brien. ■ A meeting of the Public Service Association of Wellington will be hold on Friday week, afa which the rules and regulations, joased on the suggestions which have been received from all parts of the colony during tho last) two months, will be submitted. When these rules are finally adopted the Association will be formally constituted. pThe Parliamentary Committee of the Trades Congress support the eighb hours for miners only, as they fear thab the Bill providing for eight hours generally Would destroy Labour Unions. Mr T. Burfe, M.P., one of the Committee, insists thafa the adoption of eighb hours even for miners will render half the mines in the north idle.

I A sample of coal recently discovered ab Catlin's has been forwarded to Professor Black, of Dunedin, for analysis. A trial has been made of other samples with good results, showing it to be good gas coal. It also leaves a residuum of clinkers, showing it to be true coal, the first) of its kind found in Otago. In the same locality ironstone and lime exist, but to what extent is nob yet known. Do nob be "a penny wise and a pound foolish," bub ask for and buy Brown, Barretb and Co.'a genuine pepper. It is cleaner and cheaper than the adulterated stuff sold as pepper. To make sure of getting our manufacture, ask for tins. Every tin bears our guarantee.—Brown, Barretb, and Co., Coffee and Spice Manufacturers.— ( Advt. )